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BJP
puts off decision on 5 Haryana seats Chautala
family treats party MPs like slaves: Gurjar Chautala
rejected package for cane-growers, says Kataria Two
minors raped, one murdered Leprosy
patients fear casting vote |
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Section
144 imposed during exam days 2
arrested for looting liquor kiosk ITDC,
KU start course on hospitality KU Fine
Arts Dept to start BA course 
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BJP puts off decision on 5 Haryana seats Chandigarh, March 27 Mr Ganeshi Lal, when contacted, dismissed reports about difficulty being faced by the BJP to field good candidates in the state. |
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Chautala family treats party MPs like slaves: Gurjar Chandigarh, March 27 Mr Ajay Singh, who represented the constituency in the dissolved Lok Sabha, further said that at least Rs 10 crore from the Local Area Development Fund of the INLD MPs, representing other constituencies, had been spent for development of the Bhiwani constituency following his intervention. Reacting to Mr Ajay Singh’s claim, Mr Gurjar said the Lok Sabha member’s statement regarding filling of one-fourth of the vacancies of the state by people from Bhiwani amounted to an admission that aspirants from other areas of the state had been discriminated against. The Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, himself had facilitated this game of discrimination so that the constituency of his elder son could be nurtured, Mr Gurjar said. The BJP leader also expressed surprise at Mr Ajay Singh’s claim about channelising the area development funds of other MPs for the development of his constituency. “This shows the status of the INLD MPs, who are treated like slaves by members of the Chautala family”, Mr Gurjar said. |
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Chautala rejected package for cane-growers, Chandigarh, March 27 Mr Kataria, who was talking to newspersons, here after paying obeisance at the Mata Mansa Devi temple immediately after the BJP formally announced his nomination from the Ambala reserved seat, said the Chautala government would fall soon after the Lok Sabha elections because the people of the state would reject it at the hustings. Claiming that the Centre had given over Rs 700 crore to the state for building roads, Mr Kataria alleged that the Chautala government played havoc with roads by allowing over-loaded vehicles to ply for extraneous considerations. He also accused the INLD government of taking credit for the scheme by the Central Government for the benefit of farmers. Mr Kataria said the Union Agriculture Ministry had prepared a special package for cane-growers at his request so that the growers could be paid their dues of the cane purchased by the mills. But Mr Chautala rejected the package because it would have benefited the farmers of the Ambala and Karnal areas, which were represented by the BJP MPs. He claimed that he had spent about Rs 12.50 crore out of the MP Local Area Development Fund on over 1500 development works, which was a record of sorts. He said though he was given about Rs 8 crore under the scheme in the past four years, he could spend more because the Congress MP from Ambala had left his funds unutilised. |
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Two minors raped,
one murdered Panipat, March 27 The police has arrested the accused. The police added that Raju was a member of a gang operating in Ambala city. The family of the victim told The Tribune that the parents of Raju were not on talking terms with them except Raju. In a similar incident a seven-year-old was allegedly raped by her cousin Pardeep, a 19-year-old at Rajakheri village about 14 km from here today. The incident took place when the victim had gone to handover a matchbox to Pardeep in his room. The accused closed the room and committed the crime. He threatened to kill her if she narrated the incident to her parents. The girl narrated the incident to her family and members of the two families initially decided to settle the case amicably. But when the suspect started blaming the girl the father of the girl then reported the matter to the police. A case of rape has been registered in this regard. The girl has been sent for the medical examination. The suspect has absconded. |
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Leprosy
patients fear casting vote Ambala, March 27 Mr Prabhash Jha, general secretary of the ashram, told Chandigarh Tribune that a separate booth for the leprosy patients hurt the interest of democracy. "It becomes clear that we are not part of the mainstream. Also, our anonymity as voters is lost due to the separate booth," he said. Till about two decades ago, the leprosy patients had been casting their vote along with other
people. "However, in 1985 a separate booth
was set up for us within our ashram complex.
This was done with the consent of the then ashram residents, little realising that it will take us away from the mainstream," he said. Ever since, they were facing a difficult situation, he added. "We are only 60 voters. Since we have a separate booth, the political parties get to know whom we vote
for. The parties we
don't favour then tend
to ignore us," he explained. The leprosy patients were thus considering
not casting their vote in this election. "If we do not cast our vote, then no political party can blame us. We need everybody's support," they stated. Residents
of the ashram demanded that either their polling booth should be done
away with and they be permitted to cast their vote along with others
in the neighbouring areas, or a few other areas should be added to
their polling booth so that their anonymity was maintained. The
patients said that except for Ambala Cantonment MLA Anil Vij,
politicians had not cared about their problems. "We repeatedly
approached a former BJP MP with our demands, but to no avail,"
they alleged. The demands included the construction of toilets and a
boundary wall. "Our simple requests were not even considered. The
cemented pathways came up due to the intervention of Mr Vij,"
they stated. |
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Section 144 imposed during exam days Kurukshetra, March 27 According to the orders, this Section has been promulgated apprehending the likelihood of causing tension, annoyance, obstruction or injury to people and property, disturbance of public peace and
tranquility within the limit of examination centres on account of Kurukshetra University compartment examinations of BA part I and II, which will begin from March 27, and annual examinations for under-graduate courses, which will be conducted from March 31 to April 3. If any person is found violating the order, he will be liable for punishment under Section 188 of the IPC. |
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2 arrested for looting liquor kiosk Kaithal, March 27 The SP, Mr Sukhdev Singh, said here yesterday that three motor-borne armed youths looted Rs 4,000 from the proprietor of the kiosk, following which a case was registered. Later, the police apprehended two motorcycle-borne youths at a naka near Shadipur. On interrogation they confessed to the crime. The SP further said arms were recovered from the duo, which included a .315-bore pistol, a “katta” and cartridges. Those arrested have been identified as Parveen of Sirkara, Julka, and Hasmin of Bhura Khandela under police station Kairana, Uttar Pradesh. |
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ITDC, KU start course on hospitality Kurukshetra, March 27 A Memorandum of Understanding to this effect was signed by both the parties yesterday by Mr Amitabh Kant, Chairman and Managing Director, and on behalf of Kurukshetra University. The course will admit 60 candidates in the first year, which may be extended upto 100 seats next Session. The admission part will be looked after by Kurukshetra University and the teaching infrastructure and training will be the responsibility of the ITDC and Marketing will be done jointly by Kurukshetra University and the ITDC.
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KU Fine Arts Dept to start BA course Kurukshetra, March 27 Dr Chawla urged upon the department to prepare a brochure comprising good work done by students at the earliest so that their creative talent of art could be projected amongst the maximum people. Students of the department, exhibited their paintings and compositions including photography, computergraphy and work based on social and project campaigns. The Vice-Chancellor called upon the young artists to go ahead in this direction so that they could bring name to the institution and state at the national and international level. Earlier, the chairperson of the department Dr Amar Singh, said the university had recently organised a national-level exhibition in the department in which artists of international repute participated from all over India. |
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371 cases settled
at Lok Adalat Yamunanagar, March 27 Mr Dhawan said Rs 161 crore have been awarded as compensation in 24,662 motor accident claim cases and 16,291 persons have so far been provided with free legal services. Mr Sardana said in today’s Lok Adalat, 21 cases pertaining to death injury arising out of accidents under the Motor Vehicles Act were decided wherein Rs 24,38,000 was awarded as compensation. He said 350 cases of other categories were also decided. |
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